First Day of School!

So the reason we moved to this new land so much earlier than Dan was that school started so early, today to be exact. What a fun day it was for both of my big, school going girls. Kallie woke up at the crack of dawn and then had to wait an eternity until 9:00 when school started (her old school started at 7:50, that's a big difference)! Sydney laid on the ground screaming because she wanted to go to school in the morning with Kallie and not wait until afternoon kindergarten started. To make matters worse, Sydney's teacher did a 45 min. 'treasure hunt' for the first day and that was it! So poor, poor little Sydney had to wait at home with no one but her boring mother to play with clear until 2:45...I think she asked 'is it time to go yet mom' about a million times! But at the end of the day everyone came away happy and excited for tomorrow!


Kallie couldn't get over the fact that there were palm trees in front of her school. How cool is that!

Didn't realize my camera was on full manual mode, there's no fixing this one but I didn't want to leave it off (a little over-exposure never hurt anyone).

"Syd, open your eyes so I can take a picture!"
"I can't Mom, the sun is too bright."

"Ok...they're open, hurry and take it!"

The question...will she learn to write her "S" the right way? I've practiced with her at least a zillion times...is there hope?

Side note #1: There seem to be a few people who are a little confused about our life situation at the moment, don't worry we're all confused! Here's the story in a nut shell: Dan is selling his office in Hailey to start a new office in Las Vegas that specializes in TMJ therapies and Sleep Apnea oral appliances as well as cranial-facial pain in general. However, we sorta don't want to live in Vegas so we are trying out the possibility of living in St. George and Dan will commute. It's isn't as bad as it sounds though because he is only planning on working 3 days a week (and a 4th doing paperwork at home) and his aunt and grandma live in Vegas so he can stay with them. This is just an experiment so we'll see how it goes. Dan will stay in Hailey for a while until the sale of the practice is final (hopefully just a few more weeks) and the 'vacation home' I've been referring to is our lovely home that we bought and may not be able to sell for a while. So let me know if you are in the area and don't want to stay in a hotel. And yes...Kristin if your in-laws buy the 'vacation home' you can have the flowers and not only that I'll probably buy you flowers every year until I die! How's that for a good offer :)

Side note #2: Have you ever had a friend (Jeni) that would hang out with you by the pool while the children swam and at a moment of panic when you think your 5 year old might be struggling in the water rushes into the water to save her. Just say this friend was wearing a brand new outfit that she had just gotten in the mail that day...would she still rush in fully dressed to help? What if the mother of the 5 year old (me) didn't rush into the water, but instead ran along the deck of the pool to yell at her 8 year old to go save the 5 year old. And what would your friend say in the end if your 5 year old was just crying and throwing a fit because her sister had taken a pool toy away from her and she wanted it back...would your friend be mad? And then...what if the towel you were sitting on by the side of the pool blew away in the wind and landed in the pool, no big deal right??? Unless your friend's cell phone was sitting on the towel and when the towel blew into the pool so did her cell phone. So now you have a friend (Jeni) who is wearing brand new soaking wet clothes with a dripping,dead cell phone all because your 5 year old wanted a little bag of plastic pool fish...would your friend still want to be your friend??? I'll let you know tomorrow :)